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I don't know where this idea that UP will steal 2 tracks from other services for all time came from. Globally, suburban rail systems without particularly exotic signalling systems can run 10 tph per direction on two tracks.

^ Reason 1/101 = That train is used to renew existing tracks, not lay brand-new ones for the first time (think about it... the front end has to run on something, right?) Reason 2/101 = That train wouldn't be super useful running down the middle of Eglinton Avenue East where unballasted tracks...

Because they will launch from Brentcliffe sooner than when they extract from Yonge?

At the risk of re-summoning a certain frequently-repeated series of posts in this thread, finished trackwork on date x does not automatically equal all-day service on date x+1. [Edit: ha --- in the time I had the window open, the cavalry did indeed show up ;)] All indications are that some...

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Check the link. The platform changes will bring platform 4 back into circulation for GO service. Platform 3 will continue to be closed.

In the interests of getting us mildly back on topic, I stumbled upon this tweet which I think is the first picture we've seen of a full three car train in the A-C-A arrangement:

You do realize there's no such thing as an international standard? It's just a trumped-up way one graphic designer (who as best I can tell has never designed a major metro system's actual map) decided to describe the consistent formatting choices he used on a speculative project he did. I mean...

That's a concept map intended to illustrate how the lines 1-4 system could be expanded. It doesn't even have the right number of stations on it (look at Finch and Sheppard), and has a completely fictional station on Eglinton in the form of "Weston-Black Creek". The TTC has never allowed...

Why is whether a vehicle runs on rails or not a salient detail when planning a trip?

^This. It's entirely possible that at this point, finishing the project as planned is actually cheaper than buying out the existing contracts, letting the contractors walk, and leaving a mostly-finished subway to rot.

Er, not sure how level crossings and bullet trains are remotely relevant. Anyway, I looked it up and since 1960, there have been 8 new-build grade-separated metro systems in North America: Montreal (1966), SF BART (1972), Washington (1976), Atlanta (1979), Baltimore (1983), Miami (1984)...

Was there ever any consideration back in the late 90s of building the Sheppard line with ATC from the start? It was certainly a mature enough technology then.

I don't have the first clue how long it takes to test a new transit line, but based on some of the photos in this thread I'm wondering if it might be the construction rather than the test schedule that will be the critical piece that drives the opening date. If, for the sake of argument, they...

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They were already looking at fare integration and additional stations before SmartTrack officially became a thing. Glen Murray spoke about it when he was minister. And this Metrolinx presentation from September 2014 (big PDF) mentions infill stations and aligning with fare integration.

It seems pretty obvious to me that it was an indoor/outdoor thing. The TTC's escalators are indoors connecting to clean, dry platforms kept at a constant temperature. GO's were in unheated concrete stairwells connecting to outdoor platforms that spent four months a year covered in rock salt...

Does that mean they were checking how air turbulence from a GO train might buffet the much smaller UP train in an enclosed space?

I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think so. The one cab end we have seen has clearly shown front windows on both sides of the centre gangway and assorted other paraphernalia like striping and road numbers and lights and the like. If those features were on both ends of each car, I think they would...

Bringing back this debate for a second because I've stumbled across something of note. This photo someone snapped of a C-car being delivered makes it appear like there is a cab only at one end: Note the near end of the car has a blank end wall and a regular-sized side window right next to...